Upton Sinclair's The Jungle not only drew attention from the likes of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and the future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, it drew action. The novel's depiction of what takes place in a meat-processing plant...
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Upton Sinclair's The Jungle not only drew attention from the likes of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and the future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, it drew action. The novel's depiction of what takes place in a meat-processing plant pressed the U.S. government into taking steps to regulate the industry for the benefit of workers and consumers. Industrialization, immigration, corporate and government responsibility, the limits of capitalist power-all of these classic American issues and themes found in this seminal work are still debated today. This new edition of literary criticis
Cover; Contents; Editor's Note; Introduction; A Note on Upton Sinclair's The Jungle; From the Jungle to The Fasting Cure: Upton Sinclair on American Food; The Two Lives of Jurgis Rudkus; In Search of Left Ecology's Usable Past; Processes of Elimination: Progressive-Era Hygienic Ideology, and Upton Sinclair's The Jungle; The Jungle: From Lithuanian Peasant to American Socialist; Sinclair's Sources and His Choice of Lithuanian Characters; Discursive Determinism in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle; Writer's that Changed the World: Samuel Richardson, Upton Sinclair, and the Strategies of Social Reform
